7 weeks from getting married?! Ha! Me too and I’ve been getting out most evenings for a couple hours at a time! You’re doing it all wrong…
(I may be missing something here but hey, loving out on the trails!)
As for bristol, trails link up well from Leigh, 50 acres, Ashton court – and further afield if you explore enough. Used to do a decent loop after work in the days when I lived in clifton. Hop over the bridge, awesome trails, done. There’s a trail building group that head out around Leigh/Ashton court, worth joining. Also singletrack reporter at large Barney used to be part of the group and we’d all go exploring round the local trails. You really have a lot on the doorstep in bristol.
As others mentioned its easy to get to Wales for a big more big hill action or head South for exmoor, Dartmoor etc. I’m currently on the quantock hills, they’re bone dry. Lots of loose stones about making some patches a bit hairy at speed – and someone’s been busy building some huge kickers on a trail running down off the top into holford – wasn’t expecting it and went flying. Landed it but was a bit nuts. Quantocks are a bit of a hidden gem, people always shoot by on their way to exmoor and Dartmoor but worth checking out. Triscombe has some DH tracks and was the site of an endure even recently…